School district apologizes for spelling errors on test

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) - The school superintendent in Springfield has taken responsibility for tests given to 11th- and 12th-graders that were rife with spelling, grammatical and factual errors.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) - The school superintendent in Springfield has taken responsibility for tests given to 11th- and 12th-graders that were rife with spelling, grammatical and factual errors.

Two tests given in May to about 2,600 students contained about 100 errors combined. The mistakes included the phrases truning around and For God's skae, as well as a note that read "This is the end of the Test" when there were two more pages.

Superintendent Alan Ingram said Monday that district proofreaders dropped the ball.